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Fired-glaze Pottery Grave Marker
Madison County, Tennessee


Fired-glaze pottery grave marker

Fired-glaze pottery grave marker


This is esentially it is a clay pot with name, date, relationship information etched into the pot's glaze before the glaze is fired. This example is from the Rogers Cemetery on Bear Creek Road, Pinson, Madison County, Tennessee.

Maudie Viola Garner
Died 1889
Dau. of J. C. Garner and Emma J.

NOTE: The photographs of Maudie Viola Garner’s Grave Marker and the comments above were graciously contributed to TNGenNet Inc. by David Donahue

  

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